The Moderator

Saturday, November 12th 2011

19:59

UN hit with cash demand over Haiti cholera

The United Nations has been hit with a demand for hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations because of a year-old cholera outbreak that has killed more than 6,700 Haitians.

The demand was made on Tuesday on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families in a petition filed at UN headquarters in New York by the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

The human rights group said the peacekeeping soldiers were not adequately screened by the United Nations.